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evasive
What does evasive mean?
evasive (adjective): deliberately vague or ambiguous.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use evasive in a sentence?
- His answers were brief, constrained and evasive. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- An evasive statement. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce evasive?
/ɪˈveɪsɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does evasive come from?
From French évasif, from Latin ēvādō.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “evasive” mean?
humorously sarcastic or mocking
Not quite: that's what ironic means.
tending to vary often or widely
Not quite: that's what volatile means.
deliberately vague or ambiguous
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rigid; hard to bend; inflexible
Not quite: that's what stiff means.
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